tower of silence
Americannoun
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At the end of the book, from her hospital window, Miss Batchelor sees the wheeling carrion birds of a Parsi tower of silence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Emancipation has only locked the saint in the same tower of silence as the heresiarch.
From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
A few miles southeast of Teheran, in a desolate, unfrequented spot, is the guebre "tower of silence," where they dispose of their dead.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas
Instinctively, as she looked abroad over that wondrous panorama, she raised both bare arms; and, clad in the tiger-skin alone, stood for a little space like some Parsee priestess, sun-worshiping, on her tower of silence.
From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan
There is a tower of silence, and the bell Moves up—another man is made to be.
From The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala by Baerlein, Henry
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